Dies in Tsingtao Shanghai, May 30, Mrs. Annie Louise Clifton, widow of late Mr. Frederick Clifton of the Shanghai Waterworks Company, succumbed to a sudden heart attack, at the age of 70, in the Tsingtao residence of her' daughter. Mrs. E. R. Hykes "f the Standard Oil Company of New York. on Friday May 27 Born in 1862, the late Mrs. Citton was on her way fo China in 1880 to foin her father," the late Mr. Fred Mann of the Kiangsu Chemical Works when their vessel. the s. Kenmure Castle, was wrecked in storm and foundered in the bay of Biscay. She was one of the few survivors of this disaster who escaped in a single lifeboat which drifted for three days and nights before help arrived.
One of the oldest residents of this city, where her brother, the late Mr. Jimmie Mann was well known in the local sports circles, and was a mom-ber of the Shanghai interport cricket team, she is also well remembered by her numerous friends in. Hankov having resided in that city from 1032
During the troubles she evacuated fo Hongkong. from where she went fo Tsingiao a month ago, stopping with Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hykes, Her sudden death came as a severe shock to her children, Mrs. R. P. Tilley, Mrs. ET. Hykes, Mrs. McLorn, Mr. F. W. Clifion, Mr. H. A, Clifton, and her numerous friends. "The funeral to take place shortly in Tsingtao Missionary's Rescue Tienisin, May, 26.
Japanese authorities here yesterday received an expression of gratitude for protection accorded by Japanese troops to Mrs R. E. Blomdahl, Swedish missionary, in Suiyuan a month ago, Mrs. Blomdahl, Japanese "officials here said, was manhandled and robbed of her possessions by a Chinese band which "attacked the Swedich Protestant Mission in Liangehens. south-east of Houho, (Sylyuan City)
April 23.
Learning of the attack, the Japan-Jose authorities in Suiyuan dispatch Jed an army unit to Liangeheng and [brought Mrs. Blomdahl to the safely of the provincial capital—Domei.
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